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  • When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.

    Bertolt Brecht (1957). “Two Plays: The Good Woman of Setzuan and The Caucasian Chalk Circle”
  • I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good.

    Reading   Firsts   Boards  
  • A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.

    Roald Dahl (2009). “Going Solo”, p.10, Penguin
  • The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.

    Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster
  • On the night Test faced the Great One, this is what he'll see... twelve sharpshooters stinging, eleven eyebrows raising, ten spines a'bustin, nine noggins knocking, eight kicks a'kicking, seven punches punching, six suplexes smashing, five seconds of the people chanting The Rock's name... four Rock Bottoms, three People's Elbows, on your two buckteeth, and an ass-kicking all over New Orleans!

    Night   Two   New Orleans  
  • What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

  • The years ahead will be great ones for our country, for the cause of freedom and the spread of civilization. The West will not contain Communism, it will transcend Communism. We will not bother to denounce it, we'll dismiss it as a sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being written.

    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com. May 17, 1981.
  • My parents took me to that I think is just one of those near-perfect comedies is Young Frankenstein. Gene Wilder and Mel Brooks, they're at the height of their game. The two of them working together was amazing. Yeah, just a terrific story. You get emotionally involved. Jokes all the time, jokes that come from story. Like, they don't have to go wildly out of their way to make the jokes. It's a parody of Frankenstein movies, but also it stands as one of the great ones, one of the great Frankenstein movies.

    Thinking   Two   Games  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • We should all know this: that listening is not talking; [it] is the gifted and great role and the imaginative role. And the true listener is much more beloved, magnetic than the talker, and he is more effective, and learns more and does more good. And so try listening. Listen to your wife, your husband, your father, your mother, your children, your friends; to those who love you and those who don't, to those who bore you, to your enemies. It will work a small miracle. And perhaps a great one.

  • A great man once wrote, "Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire." If only I were as eloquent as Mr. de la Rochefoucauld...I miss you, I miss you, I miss you. And I want you. And I need your kiss. And your touch on my skin like a man needs water. Always.

    Kissing   Blow   Men  
    Karen White (2010). “On Folly Beach”, p.38, Penguin
  • All organizations start with WHY, but only the great ones keep their WHY clear year after year.

    Simon Sinek (2009). “Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action”, p.173, Penguin
  • Yes. It is true. I, Michael Scott, am signing up with an online dating service. Thousands of people have done it, and I am going to do it. I need a username, and I have a great one. 'Little Kid Lover.' That way people will know exactly where my priorities are at.

    Kids   Office   People  
  • When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has”: “I have had, you see, to resort more and more to very small, almost invisible pleasures, little extras. You've no idea how great one becomes with these little details, it's incredible how one grows.

    Ideas   Want   Littles  
  • Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it may be a great one.

    May   Faults   Suspicion  
    Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.74, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • The truth is, we pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can.

    Grief   Littles   Bears  
    William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1256, Delphi Classics
  • Little secrets are commonly told again, but great ones generally kept.

    Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.214
  • How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude!

    Solitude   Mind   Secrecy  
  • As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. There is so much goodness and ingenuity in a raindrop that an apothecary wouldn't let it go for less than half-a-crown.

    "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook B 33, 1799.
  • If you're going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones... After all, there are better ways to starve to death.

  • Bold words and bolder deeds are what we want. Awake, awake, great ones! The world is burning with misery. Can you sleep?

    Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Meditation and Its Methods”, p.60, editionNEXT.com
  • The difference between the best worker on computer hardware and the average may be 2 to 1, if you're lucky. With automobiles, maybe 2 to 1. But in software, it's at least 25 to 1. The difference between the average programmer and a great one is at least that. The secret of my success is that we have gone to exceptional lengths to hire the best people in the world. And when you're in a field where the dynamic range is 25 to 1, boy, does it pay off.

  • Winning the Super Bowl was obviously a great one, but the joy I felt of going to the Super Bowl, it was what I felt about the Pittsburgh Steelers and where we came from, the history of us to that point.

  • There are very few real teachers. Teaching is not a job; it is a vocation. To be a great one many qualities must be combined: love of truth, knowledge, reverence, loving concern for one's students, clarity and patience.

    Faith   Teacher   Jobs  
  • I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest. The experience of working there is something of a battleground, a great one, but complicated. I think there's a deep connection for having survived that workplace.

    "‘Suburgatory’ Star Ana Gasteyer Talks New Show And ‘SNL’ Past". Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2012.
  • Build your inner environment. Practice Silence! I remember the wonderful discipline of the Great Ones. When we used to talk and chatter, they would say: "Go back into your inner castle." It was very hard to comprehend then, but now I understand the way of peace

  • A man may have spent his life among the great ones of the earth, who to him have been merely boring relatives or tedious acquaintances because a familiarity engendered in the cradle had stripped them of all glamour in his eyes.

    Eye   Men   Earth  
    Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.346, Modern Library
  • Everything I learned and didn't do in New York I would put into place here in the London West Hollywood. It's fascinating, when you look at the critics' reviews, and we had a great one in the New York Observer and all that, and then the New York Times came and it was a devastation; two stars out of four. They said that I played safe because it wasn't fireworks. Then they judged the persona over the substance that was on the plate.

    New York   Stars   Two  
    Source: www.crushable.com
  • I'm such an admirer, I am an admirer of villains, especially working with so many great ones.

    "Tom Felton Interview HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS – PART 1; Plus an Update on RISE OF THE APES". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. November 22, 2010.
  • Small crimes always precedes great ones.

  • We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones.

    "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 327, 1678.
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